Devs, did you impliment an inactive disconnect timer?

[Brises]

There were times in the betas when I left the game inactive for a while, and I never saw an inactivity message or logoff. I haven't seen one in early access, because frankly, I haven't been able to play long enough. If you didn't include one, let me explain what is happening now:

Everyone who participated in phase 4 and or early access has experienced long login delays, several hours or even full days. Everyone knows that if they log off, they may not be able to get back on for a very long time. Now most people have real lives. School, work, family time etc, and may only have a couple hours at a time to play. If you have to spend those two hours attempting to log on... no game time. So guess what happens...?

When people manage to log on, they DO NOT LOG OFF. No mater what they have to do, shower, dinner, work school, sleep... they leave the game idling. They do this so they can play when they want to. What you have happening is the servers reach the max and people just stay there even if they are not playing, and a certain percentage of people will never get to play for hours or days. and these are people who bought your game.

So again, did you or did you not implement an inactive timer? because if you didn't, then you, Square Enix, are the ones who caused this problem.

[Ahro]

They should really implement a timer for AFK. I was surprised they didn't have one already. It would really help the server overload if people were kicked after a few minutes of inactivity.

[Brises]

It's kind of like when an airline overbooks a flight, and they never have an answer as to why they sold more seats than they have available. Airlines will refund my ticket. If you can't provide me with server access, will you refund the price of my game?

[KittyMel05]

Funny how I replied to a post to this just not long ago! Haha As I support the idea of a afk system implemented for those idling for a long periods of time since alot of us can't log in due to our RL and when we have free time and want to relax with XIV, It's this kind of stress that pushes people away after putting money down for a Early Access code and expect at least some gameplay out of it. Alot of us never even got to touch inworld yet! The remaining have and can be patient like myself. I was in Phase 3 Beta and enjoyed this game immensely. Phase 4 I missed out on due to RL and now I got Early Release, Only got a hour gameplay last night and today was hoping to get in at least a couple hours but never even got that. I posted a letter in the forum regarding of this and other ideas since the lot of us do have a RL and things to do first before a game like work, sleep, family, etc. but should be a team effort to give those people a chance whom have not got to play at all or for those that want to witness a Final Fantasy Online experience for the first time upon Early Release or like myself, A part of beta and want to experience this FF experience just by simply logging off and putting game duties aside and concentrate on reality. Pretty frustrating on how today went down for us that could not login but SE can only do so much and while the lot of us wait, We can only hope all will be stabilized very soon so we can join our comrades in game!

[Rulari]

There absolutely has to be a time out or nobody will leave to make room for others. I have seen people standing unmoving in the same place for five plus hours. There is no reason to not have a timer since you do not bazaar from your character like in FFXI (Which by default times out unless you change a setting) Quesu and full servers do not empty if people go to bed and stay logged in.

[Atrious]

I think you already know the answer to this question :P

[RykerSteel]

My brother who's sort of only played wow asked why people had a hard time getting in, especially when he saw people afk'ing for extended periods of time. He assumed, like in wow, that they were being disconnected eventually for inactivity. Yep, even a mmorpg novice knows how things should work to keep player rotation going smoothly.

[XenabelleS]

Not having a queue system intensifies this fear of logging out so along with an afk kick they need to implement a more rationale login process.

[darios]

Lol swtor had that afk monitor .What people made a 3rd party tool to stay online so there goes that afk idea. People will be paying for their account if they want to stay afk in game they can that comes with the subscription it sucks and I know it. When I can't log in I just go do something else.

[seebs]

Lots of games have problems with people trying to cheat the AFK timer, but if there were one, at least SOME people would be logging out rather than, say, spending a day and a half logged in even when they're asleep.